Speculation over which newspapers former News of the World readers would switch to in the wake of its sudden closure can finally be put aside after the ABC figures for July were released.

Richard Desmond’s DailyStar Sunday was given a staggering shot in the arm with a 130 per cent monthly increase taking its circulation to 703,631 – meaning it sold nearly 400,000 (or 90 per cent) more copies than in June.

All of the tabloids introduced price-cutting offers to attract NoW readers in the wake of the phone hacking scandal and they all reaped the rewards.

In a possible sign of the damage done to News International, NoW‘s parent company, its Sunday Times paper dropped below the one million sales mark for the first time since 1962, the year monthly newspaper audits began.

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Charlie Beckett, director of POLIS at the London School of Economics, reacts to news that the UK government forced the Guardian into destroying hard drives that contained information leaked by Edward Snowden.